Starch ing-machine



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V. o. RBGAN. STARGHING MAGHINE.

N0. 573.,198.' Patented Nov. 24, 1896.

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STARGHING: MACHINE.

N0. 571,798. Patented Nov. Z4, 1896.

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V. G. REGAN. STARGHING MACHINE.

No. 571,798. l PatentedNov. 24, 1896.

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VALLEY C. REGAN, 0F ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

STARCHING-NIACHINE.

SEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 571,798, dated November 24, 1896.

Application filed April 29, 1896. Serial No. 589,614. (No model.)

. which forni a part of this specieation, Figure l is a perspective View of the essential parts of a starching-maehine embodying my invention with the driving-gears for the corrugated intermeshing starching-rollers removed. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan viewof this starchingmachine, partially broken away near its middle portion. Fig. itis a fragniental View of the forward corrugated starehingroller, showing its supportinggudgeen and the bearing orI the latter in its triangular supporting-frame.

A is a starelrbox of any suitable form and construction provided with the supportinglegs A'.

I3 are two metallic frames ol' triangular form, which in this case I have made ol' brass, having the two outwardlyprojecting hooked lugs B for cach frame, one of these frames being located at each end of the machine.

C, D, and E are bearings in the frames ll, one located at each of its three angles.

F, G, and II are a series of corrugated intermeshing starehing-rollers mounted by means of gudgeons I, J, and Kin the bearings C, D, and E, respectively, of the fra-mes B.

L is the lower wringer-roller, mounted by means of the shaft M in the ends of the starchbox A and near to its upper edge.

N is the upper wringer-roller, mounted in the bearing-posts O, which are rigidly connected with and rise above the ends of the starch-boi: A.

l? is the supporting-shaft for the wringerroller N.

Q is a series of transverse endless guidetapes driven by the and running over the peripheries or' the corrugated starehingrollers F, G, and Il and the lower wringer-roller L.

R is a seat secured to the inner face of each of the ends of the starch-box.

S is a bar adapted to rest in the seats R.

S is a series of tape guide-eyes fast to the bar S and corresponding in number with the individual guide-tapes of the series Q.

T is a series of endless guide-cords driven by and running around the upper wringingroller N and the corrugated roller G, also bearing upon a portion of the periphery of the lower ringing-roller L.

U is a bracket formed integral with and extending irom the side of each of the bearin gposts O.

l" is a bar fixed between the upper ends of the posts U.

V' is a series of guide-eyes for the guidecords, fast to the bari'T and corresponding in number with the individual guide-cords 0i. the series T.

NV, X, Y, and Z are interlneshing gear- Wheels fast to the gudgeons I .T K and the shaft M, respectively.

3l is a driring-pulley last te the shaft M.

)[2 is a driving-belt for rotating the shaft L.

Motion imparted by the belt lll2 rotates the corrugated starching rollers and the two wringer rollers and drives the tapes and cords.

In operation the starclrbox is partly filled with liquid starch and the mechanism put into motion. The articles to be starched are fed between the starching-rollcrs F and G where they intel-mesh, are carried by the tapes S around the latter roller, passing the Vstarching-roller Il, and are delivered to the wringer,

where they pass between the rollers L and N, which press out the excess of starch absorbed by or adhering to them.

The guide-tapes S prevent the articles fed into the stareher from winding around the corrugated rollers F and Il and the wringerroller L, while the guide-cords T perform the same office respecting the rollers G and N.

lVh en it is desirable to remore the corrugated rollers froin the starch-box to clean the latter or adjust the parts, it may readily be done, as their supperung-brackets B are sus- 9 pended in the starch-box by the hook-lugs B', and may be lifted out at pleasure.

I claiml. In a starehing-machine, in combination, a starehbox, a series of corrugated interm esh- IOO ing stareliing-rollers mounted therein, a series of transverse endless guide-tapes driven by and traveling with the corrugated starch* ing-rollers, a lower, and an upper, Wringerroller, the former mounted in, and the latter upon, the starch-box, and a series of transverse endless guide-cords driven by one of the Corrugated stareliing-rollers and traveling therewith and With the Wringer-rollers, and a series of `guide-eyes Corresponding in number With the guide-cords, which cords pass through and are guided by said guide-eyes, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a Marching-machine, in combination, a starch-box, a series of corrugated intermeslling starching-rollers mounted therein, a series of transverse endless guide-tapes driven by and traveling with the corrugated starching-rollers,*a series of tape guide-eyes 'corresponding in number with the guidetapes, a lower, and an upper, Wringer-roller, the foriner mounted in, and the latter upon, the stareh-box, and a series of transverse endless guide-cords driven by one of the corrugated marching-rollers and traveling therewith and With the Wringer-rollers, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a starching-Inaehne, in combination, a starch-box, three corrugated, intermeshing` starehing-rollers, trunnions for the rollers, a bracket suspended from each side of the starch-box, having bearings for the trnnnions, a Wringer-roller mounted in bearings in the starch-box, a Wrnger-roller mounted above the box, a series of transverse endless guidetapes extending,` around tWo of the corrugated rollers and the lower Wringer-roller and beneath the remaining and intermediate oorru gated roller, a series of `guide-eyes for the guide-tapes, a series Vof transverse endless guide-Cords extending around the aforesaid intermediate corrugated roller and the upper Wringer-roller,-and'a series of guide-eyes for the guide-cordssubstantially as and for the purpose` specified.

VALLEY C; REGAL.

Viftnes'ses 4L. L. MORRISON,

NELLIE BUNKER. 

